academic Senate

Also, the faculties have their academic senates which deal exclusively with the laws of the faculties.

For this reason students across America are working through their student governments and unions to draft and pass these bills in their institutional academic senates.

Though a few other California state colleges had academic senates at this time, this level of collegial governance was unique among the state colleges.

This Commission reported in 1831 after exhaustive work and recommended that university courts look after administrative and financial matters, while academic senates would determine matters related to teaching.

Elaborating a little on this, we can say that curricular decisions may be made by students, individual lecturers, departments, faculties, academic senates or institutional committees, and central authorities in or near government.

Academic Senates of the teaching units and the University Council, Academic Senate heirs agencies was established in 1966 and the University Senate who succeeded him in 1973, dealing with the academic welfare of the University through a process of formal articulation between the units.